Tag: Christian Tolstrup Jensen

Peace and war, or camaraderie and struggle, are keywords for a lot of sports – and for Matti Goksøyr’s long and impressive work as a researcher. He earned his doctorate at the NIH in 1991 and became professor of sports history eight years later. In December 2022 he turned 70, and how better to celebrate that than with a Festschrift. Christian Tolstrup Jensen enjoyed reading Fred og krig: Festskrift til Matti Goksøyr [Peace and war: Festschrift to Matti Goksøyr], edited by Gudmund Skjeldal & Allan Bennich Grønkjær.

Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira’s study Mega-Events, City and Power (Routledge) examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. According to Christian Tolstrup Jensen, de Oliveira makes a convincing case that sport events impact urban development – and vice-versa. A rewarding read, concludes our reviewer.

Aarhus Universitetsforlag fick en idé: 100 böcker av 100 forskare på 100 sidor under 100 månader som var och en beskriver ett år i Danmarks historia. 1983 var året när Danmarks fotbollsherrar besegrade England på Wembley med 1–0. Christian Tolstrup Jensen berättar om detta i Sejren på Wembley, som vi bad Hans Bolling läsa och recensera. Han kan konstatera att Jensen lyckats väl med uppdraget, och man kan inte längre använda tidsbrist som bortförklaring för att inte läsa in sig på dansk fotbollshistoria.

In this feature article, Christian Tolstrup Jensen summarizes his article in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, in which he presents results from a study of the conceptualisation of sustainability in all local policies relating to sports events in Norwegian municipalities. His findings emphasise the relevance of looking at the local level when conducting future studies on events and sustainability and suggest that the practitioners acknowledge the complexity of reconciling demands for more events and increased sustainability.

Billy Graeff is a lecturer at the Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil, and his book Capitalism, Sport Mega Events and the Global South (Routledge) explores the socioeconomic impact of such events on host countries in the Global South. We gave the book to Christian Tolstrup Jensen to read, and his knowledgeable and critical review turns up impressive analyses but also finds that the macro and micro levels are not analytically connected in Graeffs political economy of sport mega events.

What did UEFA Euro 2012 do to its Polish host city Poznań? This is what Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska tries to find out in her study Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event: Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan). Our reviewer is Christian Tolstrup Jensen, and he is quite impressed with Kowalska’s approach and results.

Milena Parent and Jean-Loup Chappelet have collected 21 contributions for the Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management, by altogether 36 scholars in the field. Our reviewer is Christian Tolstrup Jensen, and while he offers som suggestions that he feels would improve the quality of the handbook, he is nevertheless quite happy with the collection as it is.

In Mega-Events and Globalization: Capital and spectacle in a changing world order (Routledge), editors Richard Gruneau and John Horne (red) present original contributions from leading international scholars. Our reviewer Christian Tolstrup Jensen is quite happy with the papers that are generally short and easily read, showing similarities across the cases and through the concepts and theories.